The way in which skilled long jumpers regulate their gait during their run-up to the takeoff board was investigated. The run-up consists of (1) an initial accelerative phase, and (2) a zeroing-in phase. Their skill varied with the adjustment of the impulse of their steps toward the end of the run-up. (Author/BW)

A review of research examines the relationship between visual perceptual skills and reading achievement using meta-analysis to integrate statistically the results from 161 studies. It was concluded that visual perceptual skills should be included in the complex of factors predictive of reading achievement. (Author)

Both good and poor readers stored information indicating whether a word was heard or seen and information concerning a word's category membership. (Author)

Eight sets of paired auditory and visual stimuli were constructed. Each member of the auditory pair was matched by one member of the visual pair (e.g., ascending "tone/up arrow"; descending "tone/down arrow"). Sixty-one infants with a mean age of 11.4 months were presented matching and unmatching stimuli; total fixation time…

One- and two-month-old infants were shown schematic drawings of a human face with features arranged (1) naturally, (2) symmetrically but scrambled, and (3) asymmetrically and scrambled. Two-month-olds discriminated among all arangements and preferred the natural arrangement; one-month-olds showed no discrimination or preference. (Author/DB)

The aim of this paper was to study the phenomenon of joint visual attention between human infants and adults. (Author/DB)

Using 60 subjects, aged five to eight, this study assessed the magnitude of relation between deaf children's perceptual motor development, measured by the Developmental Test of Visual Perception, and their language development. The relationship was positive and significant, but the value too small to indicate reliable association for individuals.…

This brief overview on dyslexia notes the problems of defining this syndrome, presents a profile of a "typical" dyslexic child, and describes the three sub-types of dyslexia which have been identified. (SJL)

Shows how to use Rudolf Arnheim's theory of visual thinking in technical writing classes. (RL)

Investigates the responsiveness of 14- and 20-week-old infants to binocular information using a stereoscopic shadow caster showing an object approaching on a collision course. (Author/SS)

Investigates the magnitude of the over- and under-estimated portions of the Ebbinghaus (Titchner's circles) illusion in 688 subjects ranging in age from 5 to 70 years. (Author/SS)

Explores sensory experiences, both real and imagined, that occur while reading. (MKM)

Three experiments investigated four-month-old infants' capacity to perceive bimodally specified events by detecting the temporal synchrony of sound bursts with the visable impacts of surfaces. (Author/SS)

The effectiveness of motion parallax for relative and absolute distance judgments was studied using second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade children and college students. (JMB)

Tested whether a verbal description given before or after presentation of a picture effected visual processing and/or memory. (SB)